Really makes me wonder wtf is up with some banks and their incompetence. I registered for online banking with my bank some time ago, and they only allow [a-z][A-z][0-9] for passwords. no ~!@#$%^&*(. In the 21st century. Shame.
Well why not make the ubuntu installer ask whether you'd like kde or gnome or xfce instead of managing 8 *buntus...? Seems so terribly redundant.
If you're catering to folk that are too derp to apt-get install firefox, they could install 5 browsers by default and pop up a pretty window asking them which they'd like to try, in the age of terabyte HDDs.
I've never understood the carelevel for what comes default so much. I forget what the default browser is in debian, but it isn't firefox/iceweasel, at least it wasn't. not konq either.. uh.. e-something. And yet i have no problems getting firefox running more or less instantly upon install.
apt-get install browser-you-like; done
Nor do i see a purpose for *buntu, surely plain ubuntu has other WMs available through apt, no?
We should give control to a computer, in a bomb shelter on the novaya zemlya islands, with a HW random number generator that it consults for decisions.
Mr. President, it is not only possible, it is essential. That is the whole idea of this machine, you know. Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of the enemy... the fear to attack. And so, because of the automated and irrevocable decision making process which rules out human meddling, the doomsday machine is terrifying. It's simple to understand. And completely credible, and convincing.
At this point they basically have earth minus the US on the copyright watch list. I'm sure the US would be on the list if it wasn't where they are from, also.
Of the 40 countries listed in the report, the IIPA recommends that 13 be placed on USTR’s “Priority Watch” List in 2011: These include Argentina, Canada, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, and Thailand, all carried over from last year, with the additions of Costa Rica, the Philippines, Spain, Ukraine, and Vietnam. The other 27 countries are recommended for the 2011 “Watch” list.
An AC posted this at the time of that story, I thought it was spot on:
so after a few minutes on google it seems that they've put about half (3,225 million) of the world population (6,775 million) on their must watch list. I'm not going to look for the population of the other 27 countries but it wouldn't surprise me if it totals 6,470 million people which is the worlds population minus the USA population.
A lot of the Symbian hate is justified, it's a bit of a pain to develop for and things like that (although new symbian releases support Qt right? should make things easier).
But symbian has some nice features too. Like being designed ground up for phones, so you get things like having much longer battery life - days, not hours. Try that with an iphone or android.
TFA says it's mostly due to them getting cut at both ends. By the Chinese on low price phones, which Nokia has traditionally sold an ass-ton of, world wide. And by android and apple on the top end. (I think this is a lot more in the US than the ROTW, but US is a big smartphone market...)
Kind of a shame really, I was looking forward to more N900-esque phones, but I don't think that will be happening anymore. I'll also miss smartphones with buttons on them.
"It remains to be seen how low [market share] could go, but for smartphones we are talking about going under 20% this year." Only two years ago Nokia had a 40% share of the smartphone market, but it was passed in the first quarter of this year by Android, with 32%. Nokia had 24% and Apple 18%.
Interesting. I understand it is possible to do it more or less manually, I just had assumed pieces here and there had been slowly modernized over the years.
Then again with the level of bureaucracy involved, it probably takes the lifetime of a plant to get new parts approved anyway.
I guess I was an idiot to assume things had already been digital for some time now...
So what are they using right now then, a few vacuum tubes and clocksprings? Or do they have those newfangled "crystal" rectifiers and point contact transistors. (yeah, I know cave-tech and digital aren't mutually exclusive, give me a break;) ).
Just because there is no computer running the show, doesn't mean it isn't digital. I'm sure there must be some digital bits involved, no? Or is it just big fucking analog panel meters and red buttons? Analog PID controllers for pressure limits, temp limits, water volume, and that sort of thing, or again just gauges and manual control? I'm thinking there is a digital PLC controlling most of those sorts of things as it is... Who knows though, enlighten me.
He's not talking about 7.62, but 5.45mm, when the soviets went to the AK74 some time after the M16 came into existence.
Not sure if it's really a fair argument though, the point of the smaller ammo was to be able to carry more, which happened. It's not as good in the jungle, though. At least the AK74's didn't jam to hell like early M16s... which was the main hate on 5.56, no?
Suppose the russians still use both anyway, don't they?
That has been deemed fine, as the powers that be decided that only hard labour is cruel. Sewing for a few dollars a day is apparently fine. My real problem with it is the loaning to commercial enterprise, seems like a conflict of interest for a few parties involved, which can lead to, yeah, you know... If it's truly voluntary and not benefiting to private outfits I think it's fair enough. or if working for private enterprise, the outfit they are contracting for pays market wage, and it goes to a charity if they don't want the prisoners to collect. That way there is no advantage for the outfit, no kickback to the prison, etc.
Wouldn't mind seeing hard labour come back for violent offences myself, at least for recidivists. Some folks you just can't reach and all that.
Certainly the best way to deal with a problem is to deny that it exists altogether. I guess so long as people have faith that a mac is somehow immune (be it to actual virii or user error induced malware installs), and they keep selling, that's all that matters.
Steve must have been taking lessons from some govn't agencies.
Yeah, there are a few script package deals, fail2ban, denyhosts(?), etc.
Or you can just modify iptables / pf / whatever your firewall is directly. I've got a rule on pf to plonk any traffic on ssh if more than 3 connections are made in some amount of time.
Of course, all of these aren't immune to massive distributed attacks, as a billion * three attempts is still 3 billion attempts.
Because, obviously, all engineers and scientists will do this - given power - right?
I'm not saying the west needs a government like China, far from it. In fact my comment really has nothing to do with China, other than the fact that they coincidentally have some non-lawyers in charge. A stopped clock reads correct twice a day and all that.
I'd merely like to see a little more heterogeneous group in power here, with some scientific minded types involved.
Surely China is lacking in a lot of areas, but I do find this interesting.
I grow really weary of western leaders being almost completely lawyers, polsci majors, bankers, economists, and the like.
It would be nice to have some ministers that actually come from the field they are in charge of more often than now, at least. Lawyers and bankers make laws for bankers and lawyers, go figure.
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Beetles were fairly safe for the era. Not like a modern car, but, then it wouldn't be a classic then, would it.
Wearing his seatbelt might have been a start, though.
China just overtook Germany on export dollar value last year, maybe the year before.
Germany manages to out export the US with a quarter of the population.
Suppose that doesn't account for internal consumption though, so... hrmms.
Not sure if you missed it, but Mao died a long time ago.
pfft, it spells LOUD.
Love as a password, what a silly species... somewhat nauseatingly lame.
2580 is equivalent to 'asdf' on a normal keyboard.
Mind numbingly so.
Really makes me wonder wtf is up with some banks and their incompetence. I registered for online banking with my bank some time ago, and they only allow [a-z][A-z][0-9] for passwords. no ~!@#$%^&*(. In the 21st century. Shame.
Well why not make the ubuntu installer ask whether you'd like kde or gnome or xfce instead of managing 8 *buntus...? Seems so terribly redundant.
If you're catering to folk that are too derp to apt-get install firefox, they could install 5 browsers by default and pop up a pretty window asking them which they'd like to try, in the age of terabyte HDDs.
chaotic-neutral-for-the-lulz hat, then?
I've never understood the carelevel for what comes default so much. I forget what the default browser is in debian, but it isn't firefox/iceweasel, at least it wasn't. not konq either.. uh.. e-something. And yet i have no problems getting firefox running more or less instantly upon install.
apt-get install browser-you-like; done
Nor do i see a purpose for *buntu, surely plain ubuntu has other WMs available through apt, no?
ps - why chrome over chromium?
We should give control to a computer, in a bomb shelter on the novaya zemlya islands, with a HW random number generator that it consults for decisions.
Mr. President, it is not only possible, it is essential. That is the whole idea of this machine, you know. Deterrence is the art of producing in the mind of the enemy... the fear to attack. And so, because of the automated and irrevocable decision making process which rules out human meddling, the doomsday machine is terrifying. It's simple to understand. And completely credible, and convincing.
err, something like that.
At this point they basically have earth minus the US on the copyright watch list. I'm sure the US would be on the list if it wasn't where they are from, also.
Of the 40 countries listed in the report, the IIPA recommends that 13 be placed on USTR’s “Priority Watch” List in 2011: These include Argentina, Canada, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, and Thailand, all carried over from last year, with the additions of Costa Rica, the Philippines, Spain, Ukraine, and Vietnam. The other 27 countries are recommended for the 2011 “Watch” list.
An AC posted this at the time of that story, I thought it was spot on:
so after a few minutes on google it seems that they've put about half (3,225 million) of the world population (6,775 million) on their must watch list. I'm not going to look for the population of the other 27 countries but it wouldn't surprise me if it totals 6,470 million people which is the worlds population minus the USA population.
Pretty much.
That would mean he is apart of lulzsec - not that that makes him a part of it, or anything like that.
I'm not sure what they are going for here. If there is a give-away do they think it will water down the brand?
A lot of the Symbian hate is justified, it's a bit of a pain to develop for and things like that (although new symbian releases support Qt right? should make things easier).
But symbian has some nice features too. Like being designed ground up for phones, so you get things like having much longer battery life - days, not hours. Try that with an iphone or android.
It was GPL/commercial dual licence for ages, and more recently LGPL'd.
Development is continuing, this is a complete FUD non-story. Qt isn't going to disappear even if Nokia did.
TFA says it's mostly due to them getting cut at both ends. By the Chinese on low price phones, which Nokia has traditionally sold an ass-ton of, world wide. And by android and apple on the top end. (I think this is a lot more in the US than the ROTW, but US is a big smartphone market...)
Kind of a shame really, I was looking forward to more N900-esque phones, but I don't think that will be happening anymore. I'll also miss smartphones with buttons on them.
"It remains to be seen how low [market share] could go, but for smartphones we are talking about going under 20% this year." Only two years ago Nokia had a 40% share of the smartphone market, but it was passed in the first quarter of this year by Android, with 32%. Nokia had 24% and Apple 18%.
Interesting. I understand it is possible to do it more or less manually, I just had assumed pieces here and there had been slowly modernized over the years.
Then again with the level of bureaucracy involved, it probably takes the lifetime of a plant to get new parts approved anyway.
I guess I was an idiot to assume things had already been digital for some time now...
So what are they using right now then, a few vacuum tubes and clocksprings? Or do they have those newfangled "crystal" rectifiers and point contact transistors. (yeah, I know cave-tech and digital aren't mutually exclusive, give me a break ;) ).
Just because there is no computer running the show, doesn't mean it isn't digital. I'm sure there must be some digital bits involved, no? Or is it just big fucking analog panel meters and red buttons? Analog PID controllers for pressure limits, temp limits, water volume, and that sort of thing, or again just gauges and manual control? I'm thinking there is a digital PLC controlling most of those sorts of things as it is... Who knows though, enlighten me.
He's not talking about 7.62, but 5.45mm, when the soviets went to the AK74 some time after the M16 came into existence.
Not sure if it's really a fair argument though, the point of the smaller ammo was to be able to carry more, which happened. It's not as good in the jungle, though. At least the AK74's didn't jam to hell like early M16s... which was the main hate on 5.56, no?
Suppose the russians still use both anyway, don't they?
That has been deemed fine, as the powers that be decided that only hard labour is cruel. Sewing for a few dollars a day is apparently fine. My real problem with it is the loaning to commercial enterprise, seems like a conflict of interest for a few parties involved, which can lead to, yeah, you know... If it's truly voluntary and not benefiting to private outfits I think it's fair enough. or if working for private enterprise, the outfit they are contracting for pays market wage, and it goes to a charity if they don't want the prisoners to collect. That way there is no advantage for the outfit, no kickback to the prison, etc.
Wouldn't mind seeing hard labour come back for violent offences myself, at least for recidivists. Some folks you just can't reach and all that.
Certainly the best way to deal with a problem is to deny that it exists altogether. I guess so long as people have faith that a mac is somehow immune (be it to actual virii or user error induced malware installs), and they keep selling, that's all that matters.
Steve must have been taking lessons from some govn't agencies.
Yeah, there are a few script package deals, fail2ban, denyhosts(?), etc.
Or you can just modify iptables / pf / whatever your firewall is directly. I've got a rule on pf to plonk any traffic on ssh if more than 3 connections are made in some amount of time.
Of course, all of these aren't immune to massive distributed attacks, as a billion * three attempts is still 3 billion attempts.
Because, obviously, all engineers and scientists will do this - given power - right?
I'm not saying the west needs a government like China, far from it. In fact my comment really has nothing to do with China, other than the fact that they coincidentally have some non-lawyers in charge. A stopped clock reads correct twice a day and all that.
I'd merely like to see a little more heterogeneous group in power here, with some scientific minded types involved.
Nor did they install it on a toaster. That's missing the point, though.
Surely China is lacking in a lot of areas, but I do find this interesting.
I grow really weary of western leaders being almost completely lawyers, polsci majors, bankers, economists, and the like.
It would be nice to have some ministers that actually come from the field they are in charge of more often than now, at least. Lawyers and bankers make laws for bankers and lawyers, go figure.